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To President Trump: We need religious freedom executive order! (PETITION)

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11 months ago

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BACKGROUND

150 top conservative leaders have written to President Trump this week, urging him to take immediate steps to reverse President Obama’s "devastating" legacy on religious freedom by signing an executive order protecting the freedoms of believers.

Under the Obama administration Christian organizations have been forced to pay for insurance that provides abortifacient drugs, schools have been threatened with loss of federal funding if they did not conform to radical ‘transgender’ ideology, and Christian colleges have been threatened with loss of accreditation simply because they support the true definition of marriage.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The letter from the conservative leaders outlines numerous grave and unprecedented assaults on the religious freedom of believers over the past 8 years.

“The above individuals and groups, and many others like them, have either been punished by the government for their religious beliefs or are about to suffer under Obama-era anti-religious regulations,” they write. “They need protections that you can grant through an executive order to prevent federal discrimination against them for acting in accordance with their beliefs."

The letter comes amidst reports that President Trump’s daughter Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, may have been influential in already stopping a planned executive order on religious freedom that conservative leaders had expected Trump to sign. Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kuschner, are both known for their liberal views on LGBT and other social issues.

President Trump received widespread support from evangelical and other Christian communities, in large part because of his promises to defend their rights.

He needs to know that we expect him to follow through on those promises, and that when he does so he will have our enthusiastic support and gratitude.

Finally, we urge everyone to pray for President Trump and encourage others to do the same. Also pray in a very special way by name for Ivanka, her husband Jared, Betsy De Vos and Rex Tillerson so that they may come to understand the great dangers of the LGBT lifestyle and move away from their strong pro-LGBT positions – for the good of those involved in those harmful behaviors, and also for the good of the family and America.

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To: President Donald Trump

I wish to add my voice to those of the 150 conservative leaders who wrote you recently, urging you to sign an executive order protecting our religious freedoms.

Over the past 8 years I have watched in disbelief as the freedom of believers to live, work, and operate their hospitals, schools, and adoption agencies in accordance with their deeply held beliefs, have been eroded in the name of a false “tolerance” that seeks to crush any form of dissent.

Along with those 150 conservative leaders, I want to thank you for your words defending religious freedom, and the concrete steps that you have already taken to reverse President Obama’s destructive policies.

However, given the scope of the radical agenda of the Obama administration and the pressures imposed by extreme leftist activists and media, there still remains much left to do.

Many within the Christian community supported your candidacy precisely because of your promises to undo the harm caused by the Obama administration in this area. I eagerly await a comprehensive executive order that addresses the many assaults on religious freedom, as laid out in the letter from those 150 conservative leaders.

Also, know that you are in my prayers. I pray that God may grant you the wisdom, knowledge and humility to serve the United States and its people well, in accordance with His will.